Bøger af Janet Fitch

White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl growing up the hard way. It is a powerful story of mothers and daughters, their ambiguous alliances, their selfish love and cruel behaviour, and the search for love and identity.Astrid has been raised by her mother, a beautiful, headstrong poet. Astrid forgives her everything as her world revolves around this beautiful creature until Ingrid murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life. Astrid's fierce determination to survive and be loved makes her an unforgettable figure.'LIQUID POETRY' - Oprah Winfrey'Tangled, Complex and extraordinarily moving' - Observer

The unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption.Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery - but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged by rejection, Ingrid murders the man, and is sentenced to life in prison. White Oleander is the unforgettable story of Astrid's journey through a series of foster homes and her efforts to find a place for herself in impossible circumstances. Each home is its own universe, with a new set of laws and lessons to be learned. With determination and humor, Astrid confronts the challenges of loneliness and poverty, and strives to learn who a motherless child in an indifferent world can become. Oprah Winfrey enjoyed this gripping first novel so much that she not only made it her book club pick, she asked if she could narrate the audio release.

Slow Lightning: Impractical Poetry peeks into the lives and dreams of well known novelists, memoirists, poets and playwrights. "More than editor, Peggy Dobreer (prize winning poet, former dancer, Somatic practitioner and teaching artist) has served as expert midwife to this collection of poems that emerged from her daily guided meditations and integrated writing prompts. Slow Lightning: Imprtactical Poetry is the result, born at the height of the pandemic and culled from hundreds of these poems, crafted in this setting with unflinching candor, innovative storytelling and mastery. A profoundly satisfying array of poetry to be deeply savored." -- Stephen Reigns, author of A Quilt for David. CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Dakota Raine Baynham - Maria Berry - Maggie Bloomfield - E.J. Bouinatchov - Diane Sherry Case - Lisbeth Coiman - Brendan Constantine - Peggy Dobreer - Darothy Durkac - Alicia Elkort - Erika Lane Enggren - Janet Fitch - David Francis - MaxieJane Frazier - Mia Goldman - Jacinta Camacho Kaplan - Muriel Karr - Katherine Lansing - Ruthie Marlenée - Roberta H. Martínez - Carrie Nassif - David J Orr . Lucien Zell

The story of THE REVOLUTION OF MARINA M. continues in bestselling author Janet Fitch's sweeping epic about a young woman's coming into her own against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution.

This follow-up to Fitchs successful novel "White Oleander" presents a portrait of Josie Tyrell--a teenage runaway, an artists model, and an habitu of the '80s punk rock scene, where sex, drugs, and rock n roll inform her days and nights.

From the mega-bestselling author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, a sweeping historical saga of the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of one young woman

Now a major film directed by Amber Tamblyn starring Alia Shawkat and Janet McTeer'Janet Fitch writes the way women think in a way that is so different and poetic and brutal' Amber Tamblyn, Fast Company'Real . . . filled with sensual detail' Oprah Winfrey'Amy Poehler had given me the book . . . and said, "e;You should just read this, it's amazing"e; And I did, and I was so blown away' Amber Tamblyn, WWDA young woman's search for truth in the aftermath of loss.Josie Tyrell, artists' model, teen runaway, at home in LA's punk rock scene, finds a chance at real love with art student Michael Faraday. A Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist, Micheal takes her into his sophisticated world. But then comes a call from the Los Angeles County Corner asking her to identify her lover's dead body.Passionate, wounded, fiercely alive, Josie walks the brink of her own destruction as she fights to discover what is left of the brilliant future she and Michael had dreamed.